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A Very Long Engagement (2004) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a very interesting movie that combines both the elements of Brutal Trench Warfare of WW1 with a noir style crime drama and manages to shine in both aspects.
It opens with five french soldiers being Court-Martialed to death for self inflicting injuries to their hands to avoid being sent on the suicidal death marches across the no man's land between the enemy trenches.
Then the story goes back and forth from present to past in a detective style investigative manner, showing small clues with every scene and making the viewers ready for the final big reveal whether or not the soldiers are alive or not.
A bonding love story of Mathilde(Audrey Tautou) and Manech(Gaspard Ulliel) also centres the plot where Mathilde is desperate and determined to find out whether her lover is alive or not, and is ready to face any difficulty just to find her answers despite being an polio patient.
The Cinematography by 'Bruno Delbonnel' is symbolising the 100W light bulb to showcase the older era with the central colour shade being of yellowish tint.
There is a stark contrast of locations, one being the deadly and brutual muddy trench filled western front and other being the various beautiful locations across France with most of them showcasing Paris. The Picture perfect visuals are a feast to the eyes which keep glued to the screen seeing the horrors of war and the joys of life unfold in front of them.
The Soundtrack by Angelo Badalmenti is grand and it fits the visuals and the scenes perfectly and makes the actors express their emotions brilliantly.
The Acting by every cast member is superb and they are able to express their emotions flawlessly.
A great movie that everyone should see!!!!!!
It opens with five french soldiers being Court-Martialed to death for self inflicting injuries to their hands to avoid being sent on the suicidal death marches across the no man's land between the enemy trenches.
Then the story goes back and forth from present to past in a detective style investigative manner, showing small clues with every scene and making the viewers ready for the final big reveal whether or not the soldiers are alive or not.
A bonding love story of Mathilde(Audrey Tautou) and Manech(Gaspard Ulliel) also centres the plot where Mathilde is desperate and determined to find out whether her lover is alive or not, and is ready to face any difficulty just to find her answers despite being an polio patient.
The Cinematography by 'Bruno Delbonnel' is symbolising the 100W light bulb to showcase the older era with the central colour shade being of yellowish tint.
There is a stark contrast of locations, one being the deadly and brutual muddy trench filled western front and other being the various beautiful locations across France with most of them showcasing Paris. The Picture perfect visuals are a feast to the eyes which keep glued to the screen seeing the horrors of war and the joys of life unfold in front of them.
The Soundtrack by Angelo Badalmenti is grand and it fits the visuals and the scenes perfectly and makes the actors express their emotions brilliantly.
The Acting by every cast member is superb and they are able to express their emotions flawlessly.
A great movie that everyone should see!!!!!!
Composition Class (1938) by Kajiro Yamamoto can be easily sighted as the film which paved way for Akira Kurosawa in Cinematic History.
The legendary film director lists this film at no. 17 of his Top 100 favourite films, simply because it was due to Yamamoto's strict technique of teaching Kurosawa every small detail of filmmaking from Editing, writing script to deciding costume and make props, by making him do every single work, most of which not to Kurosawa's pleasure ; that made him a Competent director able to make any film on his own. Therefore Kurosawa addressed Yamamoto as Yama-San with respect for the great Director.
The Film follows the life of a 13 year old girl(Young Hideko Takamine), her family's daily struggles to manage meal for five people in tough times, and her desire to write articles about everyday life ; one of which gets her both appreciation and punishment.
Her teacher notices her talent of pointing out even the slightest details in her writings and encourages her and her family not to stop her from writing about things with full honesty.
Tough the film is simple and might garner interest among viewers now, but its subject matter is still true almost after 90 years of its release for various classes and parts of the world and not only Japan, the struggle against poverty is everlasting and breaking for many.
The legendary film director lists this film at no. 17 of his Top 100 favourite films, simply because it was due to Yamamoto's strict technique of teaching Kurosawa every small detail of filmmaking from Editing, writing script to deciding costume and make props, by making him do every single work, most of which not to Kurosawa's pleasure ; that made him a Competent director able to make any film on his own. Therefore Kurosawa addressed Yamamoto as Yama-San with respect for the great Director.
The Film follows the life of a 13 year old girl(Young Hideko Takamine), her family's daily struggles to manage meal for five people in tough times, and her desire to write articles about everyday life ; one of which gets her both appreciation and punishment.
Her teacher notices her talent of pointing out even the slightest details in her writings and encourages her and her family not to stop her from writing about things with full honesty.
Tough the film is simple and might garner interest among viewers now, but its subject matter is still true almost after 90 years of its release for various classes and parts of the world and not only Japan, the struggle against poverty is everlasting and breaking for many.
Hideyuki Hirayama's official entry of Japan for best foreign picture of the 71st Academy Awards, "Begging for love(1998)" a.k.a "Ai o kou hito, is a story of confronting the fears of your past while being a case study of mother daughter relationship.
The story starts when young Terue(Mieko Harada) leaves Japan for taiwan along with her sick father suffering from consumption. Her father dies after a few months and now she is left in the care of her mother who treats her like a piece of object, always hitting and scolding her. Her mother changes her relationships regularly but her and her lover's behaviour towards young Terue remains the same. She hits her with brooms, sticks, slaps etc and tells her that even her sight makes her angry and tells her that she was a result of a rape she suffered and she was not a child she wanted.
Young Terue suffers such fate everyday until one day when she decides to run away from her mother, which she is able to do with the help of her step-brother.
When she herself becomes a mother after many years, she decides to provide her daughter with every happiness that she was deprived of and love her unconditionally. When Terue begins her journey to find her father's ashes her daughter Migusa also accompanied her along her journey, They both reach taiwan where they meet their relatives and with the help of them begin their quest to find her father's ashes.
After many efforts they are finally able to locate the ashes and collect them, when migusa tells Terue that collecting the ashes was not her main purpose rather she wanted to find her mother and ask her questions and confront her fears of childhood.
They go to Terue's mother salon which migusa located, where Terue gets a haircut from her mother. She then cleaverly tells her that she is her daughter and leaves her after telling her that she always wanted to just hear 'You are Cute" from her mother.
On their return in the bus, terue tells her daughter that though her mother always hurt her, she still loved her and just wanted to be liked by her.
The Sountrack is really great and mellow and fits the mood of the scenes perfectly, The performances, especially by the actresses portraying young terue, were top notch, able to convey real emotions and pain of characters. The Pacing and camera moment were also beautifully done, almost like the taiwanese new wave movies of Edward yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien.
A really great film which was a surprise find but has become one of the best i had ever seen. Many people may not know about this film but it is a type of film everyone should at least see once.
The story starts when young Terue(Mieko Harada) leaves Japan for taiwan along with her sick father suffering from consumption. Her father dies after a few months and now she is left in the care of her mother who treats her like a piece of object, always hitting and scolding her. Her mother changes her relationships regularly but her and her lover's behaviour towards young Terue remains the same. She hits her with brooms, sticks, slaps etc and tells her that even her sight makes her angry and tells her that she was a result of a rape she suffered and she was not a child she wanted.
Young Terue suffers such fate everyday until one day when she decides to run away from her mother, which she is able to do with the help of her step-brother.
When she herself becomes a mother after many years, she decides to provide her daughter with every happiness that she was deprived of and love her unconditionally. When Terue begins her journey to find her father's ashes her daughter Migusa also accompanied her along her journey, They both reach taiwan where they meet their relatives and with the help of them begin their quest to find her father's ashes.
After many efforts they are finally able to locate the ashes and collect them, when migusa tells Terue that collecting the ashes was not her main purpose rather she wanted to find her mother and ask her questions and confront her fears of childhood.
They go to Terue's mother salon which migusa located, where Terue gets a haircut from her mother. She then cleaverly tells her that she is her daughter and leaves her after telling her that she always wanted to just hear 'You are Cute" from her mother.
On their return in the bus, terue tells her daughter that though her mother always hurt her, she still loved her and just wanted to be liked by her.
The Sountrack is really great and mellow and fits the mood of the scenes perfectly, The performances, especially by the actresses portraying young terue, were top notch, able to convey real emotions and pain of characters. The Pacing and camera moment were also beautifully done, almost like the taiwanese new wave movies of Edward yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien.
A really great film which was a surprise find but has become one of the best i had ever seen. Many people may not know about this film but it is a type of film everyone should at least see once.
